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I expected the Big Ten to flounder in the bowl games with two teams in the playoffs. Instead, the two teams in the playoffs floundered, and the rest of the Big Ten was 5-2 in bowl games.
I should also say the playoff teams gave respectable performances. No game is perfectly refereed, but I thought Michigan actually won on the field of play. Ohio State learned the importance of kickers.
When you win games at the margins, like Iowa, we have known the importance of kickers for years.
And, when you are also a Florida State alumnus, where wide left and wide right were broadcasted and consequently embedded deep in the brain, such information is retained for decades, and can be replayed to Ohio State people decades later, like a movie.
2002 Miami vs Florida State - Wide Left - YouTube

The BIG held up ok.  

Too lazy to look- how many of the games were BIG teams favored in?

I should also say the playoff teams gave respectable performances. No game is perfectly refereed, but I thought Michigan actually won on the field of play. Ohio State re-learned the importance of kickers.

They clearly forgot the lessons of Tressel-ball. Mike Nugent was a stone cold killer.

IMO the Buckeyes exceeded expectations but then I was buying into the national narrative set by slappies